Senior Legal Counsel, Safety, Content & Law Enforcement
Provides legal advice across the JAPAC region on user-data disclosures, content removal, online safety, law enforcement, and freedom-of-expression issues. Requires a qualifying law credential, admission in a JAPAC or U.S. jurisdiction, and at least six years of legal experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Advise teams responding to governmental and private-party demands for user data disclosure and content removal.
- Identify legal risks related to user-data requests, content-removal requests, online abuse prevention, and enforcement of platform rules.
- Collaborate with legal colleagues in other regions to align policies and operationalize legal requirements.
- Advise on policies ensuring compliance with legal obligations while honoring customer commitments.
- Review legislative proposals affecting content moderation and obligations to produce user data to law enforcement and government entities.
- Advise legal colleagues on law-enforcement, safety, and freedom-of-expression implications of product and design initiatives.
- Work cross-functionally with Legal, Safety, Global Government Affairs, and other teams.
Requirements
- J.D. equivalent.
- Qualified to practice law in at least one jurisdiction in the JAPAC region or the United States.
- At least 6 years of legal experience.
- Passion for user privacy, freedom of expression, and online safety.
- Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity, changing legal and policy landscapes, and limited precedent.
- Familiarity with internet-based communications technology, cloud services, and related legal issues.
- Strong judgment, creative problem-solving, and strategic thinking.
- Ability to work independently and cross-functionally with geographically diverse, multicultural teams.
- Ability to assess emerging situations and develop practical responses.
- Clear oral and written communication for legal and non-legal audiences.
- Excellent organization and prioritization skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of and experience with criminal investigative processes.
- Experience with third-party civil demands.
- Knowledge of human rights law.
Skills
Internet Communications Technology, Cloud Services, Content Moderation, Data Privacy, Freedom Of Expression, Online Safety, Criminal Investigations, Civil Demands, Human Rights Law, Law Enforcement, Legal Risk Assessment
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